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Jabal ad Duruz

(Encyclopedia)Jabal ad Duruz jäbälˈ äd do͝oro͝ozˈ [key], mountain, c.5,900 ft (1,800 m), S Syria, highest point of the Druze Mts. ...

Vysokaya

(Encyclopedia)Vysokaya vĭsôˈkäyä [key], mountain, c.1,235 ft (380 m) high, E European Russia, in the central Urals, NW of Nizhni Tagil. It has rich magnetite deposits, which have been mined since 1721. ...

Ashley, William Henry

(Encyclopedia)Ashley, William Henry, c.1778–1838, American fur trader and politician, b. Virginia. In 1820 he was elected lieutenant governor of Missouri. He sent fur-trading expeditions up the Missouri River to ...

Parnassós

(Encyclopedia)Parnassós pärnăˈsəs [key], mountain, c.8,060 ft (2,460 m) high, Phocis, central Greece. In ancient Greece it was sacred to Apollo, Dionysus, and the Muses. The fountain of Castalia was on its slo...

Hermon, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Hermon, Mount hûrˈmən [key], Arabic Jabal Ash Shaykh [mountain of the chief] and Jebel-eth-Thelj [snowy mountain], on the Syria-Lebanon border. The highest of its three peaks (all of which are snow...

Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival

(Encyclopedia)Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival, 1919–2008, New Zealand mountain climber and explorer. He went on many mountain-climbing expeditions before 1953, when he and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal were the first peop...

Assassin

(Encyclopedia)Assassin əsăsˈĭn [key], European name for the member of a secret order of the Ismaili sect of Islam. They are known as Nizaris after Nizar ibn al-Mustansir, whom they supported as caliph; the Euro...

automatic direction finder

(Encyclopedia)automatic direction finder: see radio range. ...

Cuyuna

(Encyclopedia)Cuyuna, range in Minnesota: see Mesabi. ...

Jefferson, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Jefferson, Mount, N.H.: see Presidential Range. ...